Also if you want environmental quick concept there are environmental concept Ice landscape, ainting crystal cave concept and Painting with waterfall custom brushesPeople often ask me how come I don't really finish my painting. My answer would be it takes too long, I am not quite an illustrator...that's why I am a concept artist. The key to concepting is you have to be fast, get your idea out of the door. Make it cool and readable to most audience. Whenever I want to start to come up with concept idea, I usually do this speedpainting concept spend about twenty minutes to an hour to get the idea down. You can watch and learn my process of how to put rough idea onto the paper sketching and create sci-fi character concept art online lesson for comics cartoon illustration, manga, and anime.

Great work man! Really great! Can I ask you some small questions bro...At the beginning you said you were doing random shapes... does that mean that you had nothing in mind? Before you start, normally, you say "I want to draw some Mecha" and you start putting random shapes or you lay a basic idea first?

Also, about in the middle of the video (4-5th minute) I have noticed you adjusted the composition so well and removed un-necessary values... was that with a 90-100% Opacity brush?

Thanks again for the great work... I have been quite busy these days, but I will post a portrait I've been working on with pencil (going on and off!) Thanks so much!

About Me

Xia Taptara (黃曉聲 Huang XiaoShēng), currently a professional freelance concept artist and illustrator for games and films, formerly a concept/ 3d character artist for ArenaNet (GuildWars & Guildwars 2), NcSoft Seattle from 2002 to Sept 2010. I also did various of illustrations and concepts for many publishers & clients (Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones, Cthulhu series, Pathfinder, Winnie the Pooh, Monster Inc., and more). I use Wacom Tablet Intuos and Photoshop CS2,3,4,5 to do most of my professional art work. I use pencil, pen, and traditional medium in my free time. I founded IdrawGirls.com (TheArtClasses.com) in 2007 to motivate myself to create more and better art. Also I get to draw and paint whatever the hell I want to. Hopefully I can inspired some young soul and old soul alike.
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